Hebrews 11:2,3 The Creative Power of God
11:3 "Through faith we understand - nooumen - Pf Act Ind - "To perceive with the mind"
"that the worlds were framed" - kathrtosqai - Pf Pass Ind - "perfectly prepared, made absolutely perfect, put in order, arranged
"By the word of God"/ rhmati - Uttered personally as a command, rather than logoV
"so that (eiV) things which are seen (blepw) were not made of things which do appear." - Gen. 1:1
EVOLUTION VIEW: All life came from just a few ancestors
SPECIAL CREATION: All major lines were separately created by God! "After his kind"
INTERESTING FACTS REGARDING EVOLUTION
1. The mathematical odds against just one of the "right" protein molecules for life forming are about 10515 to one. Odds against spontaneous generation are impossible.
2. Every biologist knows that all mutations are harmful. Mutation produces disorder! No reason to believe that mutation would lead to adapted forms of life.
3. Fossils look as if they formed rapidly. If deposited slowly they would have decayed. Fossils do not show the links required for proof of the theory of evolution. Bats are still bats; whales are still whales, men are men, dogs are dogs, plants are plants, etc. This supports creationism - "after their kind"
4. Living creatures are enough alike to show that they have the same Creator, but different enough from each other to show that they formed separately and not evolved.
Through faith we believe that the living, true, sovereign God created the world by His spoken Word. The world was not accidently formed, but created by the personal and purposeful act of a loving God in six 24 hour days.
John 1:3 "All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made."
Gen. 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
2 Pet. 3:5 "for this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water..."
Col. 1:16-17 "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in the earth, visible and invisible...all things were created by him. And he is before all things, and by him all things consist."
*Evolution Attempts of Destroy The concept of a personal God (atheism)
Psalm 14:1 "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God..."
Psalm 10:4 "The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts."
Romans 1:28 "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, Gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient."
*Evolution Attempts of Destroy The truth that man's soul is valuable (man is an animal and cannot know God)
Gen. 2:7 "The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
Job 12:9-10 "Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind."
Psalm 19:7 "The law of the LORD is perfect converting the soul."
Psalm 23:3 "He restoreth my soul..."
Matthew 16:26 "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
Luke 12:20 "But God said unto him, Thou fool this night thy soul shall be required of thee."
Hebrews 10:39 "But we are not them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
*Evolution Attempts of Destroy The evident power of a personal God (impossible to create out of nothing)
John 1:3 "All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.
Heb. 1:10 "And thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thy hands"
I Chron. 16:26 "but the LORD made the heavens."
Neh. 9:6 "Thou, even thou, an LORD alone; thou hast made the heaven, the heaven and the heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all..."
*Evolution Attempts of Destroy The hope of man for the past, present and future.
Past - No beginning or direct link to the Creator
Present - No purpose
Future - No possibilities
* There should be no question for the true believer. We must know Him and trust Him by faith to obtain a good report.
Ex. 31:7 "It is a sign between me the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed."
Ps. 33:6,9 "by the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of than by the breath of his mouth...for he spake and it was done; he commanded and it stood fast"